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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Former marine, Itzcoatl Ocampo, 23, accused of killing four homeless men in Orange County between December and January 2012.

It appears that the military isn’t for everyone, especially when it’s
the Marines. The Marines is responsible for being the first division
of the armed forces that sees action first. They are the first
responders in war. They see the enemy head on and all the devastation
that is a result of conflict.One marine
came home and he was still reeling from the affects of being away at
war. Itzcoatl (itz-KWAH’-tuhl) Ocampo, 23, came home and killed four
homeless people and was suspected of killing his friend’s mother and
brother as well, until new evidence was produced. So far, there is
nothing to support a possible motive other than Ocampo may be suffering
from mental illness, according to the Washington Post.

The former Marine has no previous record, so his actions are being
investigated and possibly linked to his time in an Iraq medical
battalion. The prosecutor, Susan Price, said:

“It’s the simplest case of evil you’ve ever heard of. He
has no record, but he’s a person who has hatred in him and had been
bottling it up for some time.”

Read more here on this strange case that shook Orange County between December and January 2012.
-J.C. Brooks

Not content with making the health insurance industry unprofitable,
through rules and regulations set out in enacting Obamacare, the Obama
administration released the first eight grants/loans under the Consumer
Oriented and Operated Plan (CO-OP) program.
The CO-OP program was established under the Obamacare law to put into
place one federal government selected group in every state that is
supposed to provide an insurance alternative to those few companies that
remain after the imposition of the law.

The grants/loans have raised the political antenna of Bill Wilson,
the President of Americans for Limited Government who said, “These
grants/loans reek of political payola as one group, the Saul
Alinsky-affiliated, Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative of Wisconsin
was formed in August, 2011 just three short months prior to applying for
the taxpayer money. In true, Rules for Radicals fashion, Obama’s
administration found this group worthy of receiving $56,416,000 in
taxpayer largesse.”
Common Ground is an affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation, a group the radical Saul Alinsky founded, as reported by the Journal Sentinel in Milwaukee.

The provision of $56 million taxpayer funds by the federal government
for health care organizing comes at a time when Wisconsin’s public
employee unions are orchestrating a recall election of the Governor
after failing in a retaliatory bid for power in the Senate last year.
Wisconsin’s state government moved forward with changes in the state’s
collective bargaining rules early in 2011 over the objections of the
unions. Ironically, those changes have allowed the state to bring the
budget into balance without having to lay off any public employees.
Get full story here.

It seems like every presidential election cycle people get excited to
nominate candidate that will roll back the expansion of government
under the previous administration. For months, speculation of who the
candidate will be that will stop the growth of government runs wild.
But, as is always the case, reality sets in and those who thought they
could stop the growth of government with a miracle candidate are left
with choosing between the lesser of two evils.

2012 appears to be no different.

As it stands today, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are generating the
most buzz for Republicans. With the GOP establishment lining up behind
Romney and the social conservatives lining up behind Santorum, the
media is focusing on these two candidates with Newt Gingrich and Ron
Paul fighting to get in the mix.
People concerned about the out of control spending in Washington
should be concerned about Romney or Santorum being the alternative to
Obama.

Santorum’s record on spending leaves much more to be desired. He
voted multiple times to raise the debt ceiling, supported the largest
entitlement expansion since the Great Society programs started in the
1960’s and supported increased spending throughout the federal
government especially to the Department of Education. He was known as a
“yes-man” for the Republican form of Big Government spending during the
Bush administration. Now he is campaigning as a small government
conservative, even though his record is that of a Washington big
spender.

Romney is no better. A supporter of the Bush bailouts of Wall Street,
Obama’s auto bailouts and the author of the blueprint for ObamaCare,
Romney should give any person who wants to stop Washington’s spending
addiction pause. Romney has famously flip-flopped back and forth on
various positions causing many voters to question how he will act in
office. As a candidate for President though, Romney is suddenly
“severely conservative” — whatever that means.

Both Romney and Santorum have records that show that if elected, the
spending machine in Washington will keep running just as it always has.
These are two people, who like most politicians, will maintain the
status quo.

This cycle of politics and politicians as usual seems never ending.
But that is how the system has worked for hundreds of years. The voters
that decide elections are never the base of a party, rather, the
decisive voters are in the middle and force the candidates on each side
to cater to them in the run up to November. This leads to the party
nominees moving to their true spot in the middle and saying whatever it
takes to get the votes of the political middle. That is why the U.S.
system rarely sees politicians elected that are way out on the wings
politically.
Get full story here.

Ronald Reagan’s “evil empire” speech delivered on March 8, 1983
“re-moralized American foreign policy” and reversed and era of détente
in foreign policy that had given the advantage to the Soviet Union,
Prof. Paul Kengor of Grove City College explained during an interview
with Americans for Limited Government (ALG) at the Conservative
Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Kengor, who is also a prominent Reagan biographer, said the speech
had tremendous reverberations. It put the Soviet Empire back on its
heels and help shifted the Cold War back in America’s favor.

The “evil empire” speech was delivered on March 8, 1983 and just a
few weeks later on March 23 Reagan announced the “Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI).

“Reagan used his voice as weapon,” Kengor explained. “He destroyed
this whole idea that there was somehow a moral equivalence to both sides
and it made it plain and clear that America’s struggle against Soviet
expansionism and Soviet communism was a just cause.

The same U.S. State Department officials who tried to strike out the
"Tear Down this Wall" comment from Reagan's 1987 Berlin Wall address,
were also scandalized by the "Evil Empire" speech.

Kengor served as the moderator for a panel entitled “Rendezvous with
Destiny: What Can We Learn from Ronald Reagan in 2012.” Craig Shirley,
author of “Rendezvous with Destiny” and Steven Hayward, a scholar with
the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), also took part in the
discussion.
Get full story here.

An independent investigation has found that white
criminals seeking US presidential pardons over the past decade have been
nearly four times as likely to succeed as minorities, The Washington
Post reported. The newspaper said Saturday the review was conducted by
ProPublica, an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces
investigative journalism.

ProPublica’s review examined what happened after president George W.
Bush decided at the beginning of his first term to rely almost entirely
on the recommendations made by career lawyers in the Office of the
Pardon Attorney. According to the review, blacks have had the poorest
chance of receiving the president’s ultimate act of mercy, the paper
said. From 2001 to 2008, Bush issued decisions in 1,918 pardon cases
sent to him by the Justice Department, most involving nonviolent drug or
financial crimes, The Post noted.

He pardoned 189 people — all but 13 of whom were white, the report
said. Seven pardons went to blacks, four to Hispanics, one to an Asian
and one to a Native American. The Post quotes Fred Fielding, who served
as Bush’s White House counsel, as saying the racial disparity “is very
troubling to me and will be to (Bush), because we had no idea of the
race of any applicant.”

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